There is a phrase that is repeated and says, “Freedom equals responsibility” and I would add, “Democracy equals transparency.”
Many times I have heard that you are only free if you achieve a level of responsibility such that there is no chance that someone can impose their will on you, or a political system that seeks to mark the way to impose its forms, ignoring the freedoms and guarantees that enshrines, for example, our constitution.
From ignorance nothing can be expected. What I do see is that it will only be possible to be free, from the democratic concept and always bearing in mind the principle of responsibility, when we manage to educate on the basis of individual and collective duties, which is also enshrined in our Magna Carta, but which, at Not complying, we live in an endemic lack of control and we only rant against this democracy that, with its lights and shadows, is the system of opportunities that has never been had in such a long period in the history of Paraguay.
If you are not responsible in a democracy, what this leads to is even debauchery and as a final result is the discontent that materializes in the longing for the past so recent that it is simplified in the worn phrase “before I was happy and I did not know it”.
Responsibility implies personal activism but also collective activism to participate, control and demand at all levels of public management, such as networks, coalitions, commissions, so that when this responsible action becomes effective it not only benefits me my fate to all and we feel happy with the result that implies in the long run the well-being in the republic.
Victoria Camps, Spanish philosopher, said: “Democracy needs a main virtue: trust. Without its construction, there can be no authentic democracy.
If I am responsible, I build trust and if I build trust, I build democracy. Let’s do it… before it’s too late!
